History of Protein Chemistry

Abstract

Protein chemistry may be defined as the study of the structure and chemical properties of proteins.

Keywords: proteins; polypeptides; amino acids; macromolecules

Further Reading

de Chadarevian S
(1996)
Sequences, conformation, information: biochemists and molecular biologists in the 1950s.
Journal of the History of Biology
29: 361–386.

Fruton JS
(1979)
Early theories of protein structure.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
325: 1–18.

Fruton JS
(1985)
Contrasts in scientific style. Emil Fischer and Franz Hofmeister: their research groups and their theory of protein structure.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
129: 313–370.

Geison GL
(1969)
The protoplasmic theory of life and the vitalist–mechanist debate.
Isis
60: 273–292.

Glas E
(1983)
Bio‐science between experiment and ideology, 1835–50.
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
14: 39–57.

Judson HF
(1979)
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology.
New York: Simon and Schuster.

Olby RC
(1985)
The ‘mad pursuit’: X‐ray crystallographers’ search for the structure of haemoglobin.
History and Philosophy of Life Science
7: 171–193.